UPDATE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POST:
It seems that every day I look online, there's something to anger me. It's not that I actively go looking for things to anger me, but it seems there is always something out there that does the trick. And as long as Pat Robertson is alive, then well....I'll not run out of things to be angry about, anytime soon.
Pat Robertson, he of the "9/11 was caused by the gays..." and feminists among others, and that Katrina and the South Asian Tsunami back in '05 was a sign of the end times (shockingly, we're still here five years later), has come back with another hit. No one hit wonder, this guy.
In the wake of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti yesterday, Pat Robertson, the compassionate "Christian" that he claims to be, had this to say:
Courtesy of Raw Story:
Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French. You know, Napoleon the third, or whatever. And they got together and swore a pact to the devil. They said, we will serve you if you will get us free from the French. True story. And so, the devil said, okay it's a deal.
And they kicked the French out. You know, the Haitians revolted and got themselves free. But ever since they have been cursed by one thing after the other. Desperately poor. That island of Hispaniola is one island. It is cut down the middle on the one side is Haiti the other is the Dominican Republic. Dominican Republic is prosperous, healthy, full of resorts, etc. Haiti is in desperate poverty. Same island. They need to have and we meed to pray for them a great turning to god and out of this tragedy I'm optimistic something good may come.
And I shouldn't be surprised. No one should. This man has perverted Christianity and totally twisted it to fit his own warped and demented viewpoints. People like himself do true Christianity a great harm by continuing to put on this facade that he is a true representative of Christ's love and in the process cause people to have a negative viewpoint of Christianity.
I have never, and will never wish death on anyone. That's not my bag. And when people die, I don't jump in with both feet and start slamming them and bringing up every negative thing they've ever done, like people on both sides of the political aisle do.
Saying that, though, Robertson needs to be out of the spotlight. He needs to be marginalized and set aside. Anyone that is a true Christian who supports that man, is following a false prophet, and there's really not much more to say to that. I don't understand how anyone could possibly see otherwise, unless they're card carrying members of the 700 club.
UPDATE: 7:16pm PST - Keith Olbermann fires back at Limbaugh and Robertson
The Raw Story has a piece up about Keith Olbermann's "scathing attack" against fearmongers Rush Limbaugh and Pat Robertson.
"Mr. Robertson, Mr. Limbaugh, your lives are not worth those of the lowest, meanest, poorest of those victims still lying under that rubble in Haiti tonight. You serve no good, you serve no God. You inspire only stupidity and hatred, and I would wish you to hell. But knowing how empty your souls must be for you to be able to say such things in a time of such pain, I suspect the vacant, purposeless lives you both live now are hell enough already."
UPDATE #2: 10:20pm PST - Haitian Ambassador Shames Pat Robertson on The Rachel Maddow Show
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